COPENHAGEN (AFP) – A Danish populist, anti-immigration party said a controversial plan to seize migrants’ valuables and cash was intended to dissuade migrants from coming to Denmark and not aimed at raising money.”The signal is important. Basically we are saying that if you want to come to Europe you should stay clear of Denmark because we have a lot of problems with migrants and… we don’t need any more in Denmark,” Martin Henriksen of the Danish People’s Party (DPP) told AFP in an interview late Sunday.

Under the Danish centre-right government’s proposal, to be voted in parliament in January, items of personal significance, such as wedding rings and mobile phones, will be exempt while cash and other valuables…